Difference between revisions of "MythTV Official Wiki talk:Community Portal"

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This page will be for semi-threaded discussions about the topic suitable for the Community Portal; as we reach concensus about various topics, we'll transpose that information to the article page.

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Tagging pages for deletion

Not everyone has deletion power. I have scrubbed some page titles based on the import job, and came up with a template Template:Ready for deletion that can used to mark pages ready for deletion. It will put in a little text, and then put that article into Category:Articles Ready for Deletion. In some cases (like a REDIRECT page), I had to put that on the Talk page. We need a way a top level link to get to that category, so the sysops can get in and approve deletion requests. --Gregturn 19:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

We can actually just go to the list of categories, but I agree that there needs to be something to remind us, and as I assemble administrator-y links, that's one I'll put on. Thanks, Greg.
--71.40.177.61 16:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Where should we put editing policies (and debate them as well)?

Where are we going to post general editing guidelines? One example of a policy I know from wikipedia (and agree with) is that in your articles, don't make anything level 1 (like = Section =). This is because the article names themselves are already at that level, so any sections you make should be contained within that. Would be nice to establish some guidelines, so we don't have to reformat a whole slew of articles in the future. --Gregturn 18:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Create a page for the guidelines and we can use its Talk page to discuss them. Perhaps pull the guidelines from wikipedia that are there for technical reasons in how the wiki's operate (like your section example), and we can change/modify them from there.--Steveadeff 19:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Guidelines are often put in <<Project>> namespace (in this case, <<MythTV>>) to reflect policy. I guess "if you want something, you got to do it yourself" really applies. I'll start cooking up some "draft" policies, and as always borrow a little from wikipedia. ;) --Gregturn 19:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I have created MythTV:Manual of Style, and put some preliminary comments on MythTV talk:Manual of Style. It's definitely a first cut. --Gregturn 20:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Special:Emailuser for spam-free communication

I don't like to publish my eMail address because I do not want spam-harvesters to pick them up. Some Mediawikis allow Special:Emailuser/Username - you might activate this feature or install Extension:ContactPage. --Matt 11:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Can't create an XFS partition on second drive

I simply can't WAIT to use MythTV with my new PVR-150. The Ubuntu guide is amazing! All the way to the point where I should save my captures to a partition using the XFS file system. That's where I'm stuck. I have tried a number of things, last being booting with the GParted LiveCD and trying to create a XFS partition. An error occurred. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hop